Publications

March 2013
Teaching Note

Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Tarun Khanna and Aldo Musacchio

Keywords: Globalization; Brazil; Emerging Markets; Mining; Mining Industry; Brazil; South America

January 2018
Case

Ørsted Goes Global

By: Joseph L. Bower and Elena Corsi

The European leader in offshore wind, the Danish Ørsted is building a global position and entering markets where offshore wind is nascent. The case examines the transformations in strategy leading to Ørsted’s success and the challenges of adopting that strategy in... View Details

Keywords: Off-shore Wind; Managing Global Expansion; Business Strategy; Renewable Energy; Expansion; Global Range; Market Entry and Exit

2013
Chapter

Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao

This chapter reviews the main theories in strategic management that seek to explain persistent differences in profitability across companies. We argue that these differences are ultimately explained by market imperfections. Studying differences in financial performance... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Management; Market Imperfections; Five Forces Framework; Competitive Advantage; Profit

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July 2004
Article

Building and Sustaining Buyer-Seller Relationships in Mature Industrial Markets

By: Das Narayandas and V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Relationships; Markets

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2002
Working Paper

Product and Labor Market Globalization & Convergence of Corporate Governance: The Case of Infosys and The Indian Software Industry

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

November 2016
Case

QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England

By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau

QuintilesIMS was a leading healthcare consulting firm best known for its data and information offerings as well as its market research and management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical... View Details

Keywords: Health; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotech; Marketing; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; England

October 2016
Supplement

Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)

By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman

The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A),” HBS case number 417-017, which addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of... View Details

March 2002 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Robert Mondavi and the Wine Industry

Examines the competitive challenges facing Robert Mondavi as the wine industry begins to consolidate globally. Mondavi faces challenges from foreign competitors entering the U.S. market as well as diversified global alcoholic beverage companies entering the wine... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Competitive Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

Nov 14 2014
Testimonial

Expanding Global Perspective & Industry Expertise

June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Global Wine War 2015: New World Versus Old

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sarah McAra

This case contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers in the battle for the Chinese wine market in 2015. China’s wine consumption growth presented a large and fast-growing export target that was extremely... View Details

26 Dec 2018
News

With Sluggish Economy, Chinese Auto Industry Eyes U.S. Market

1995
Article

Competitiveness and the New Industrial Policy

By: Rafael Di Tella, Alberto Ades and Mark Carney

Keywords: Industrial Policy; Competitiveness; Productivity; Competition; Performance Productivity; Supply and Industry; Policy

Research Summary

Organizational Change: The Market for Corporate Control and the Third Industrial Revolution

Michael C. Jensen is conducting research on organizational change and the corporate control market. Specifically, he is investigating the changing role of the corporation and competing organizational forms, such as leveraged buyout organizations, that are replacing... View Details

16 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Recruiting Millennials in a Global Market

The recruiting landscape is in constant flux and influenced by numerous external factors. The nancial crisis several years ago was a global event that affected all of us directly. But more often than not... View Details

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

highway mileage be imposed, with auto companies or others in the industry given opportunities to trade mileage rating credits? Or should government step aside and let the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

December 2016
Article

Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative Marketing by a Global Bank and a Major Art Museum

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser

This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership perspective. It studies the collaboration between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, and their value co-creation with customers and audiences. This in-depth case study of a sponsorship... View Details

Keywords: Sponsorship; Co-marketing; Partnerships; International Marketing; Arts Marketing; Relationship Marketing; Museums; Resource Integration; Marketing; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Institutions; Arts

October 2009 (Revised March 2012)
Case

Nettwerk: Digital Marketing in the Music Industry

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

How is music marketed in the digital era? Nettwerk Music Group built on its foundation as a social, grassroots marketer of music and artists and emerged as a leader in the Internet-enabled social media environment. For most of the past decade Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride... View Details

Keywords: Music Entertainment; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Sales; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

September 1998 (Revised April 2002)
Case

ECM Group: Improving Global Marketing Productivity

Associated Foods is considering a proposed program barter deal submitted by media consultancy ECM, along with other proposals to improve marketing expenditure productivity. This case allows calculation of the quantitative as well as the qualitative issues. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Media; Marketing Channels; Globalization; Food and Beverage Industry